Improvement in attaching hoop-skirt wire



NiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING HOOP-SKIRT WIRE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,258, dated June 5,1866.

To all whom it may concer/n:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. EARLE, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Clasping Hoops for Skirts g and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings vandthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in-

Figure l, an edge view of the wire as prepared for clasping, enlarged;Fig. 2, an edge view ot' the same two pieces of wire clasped together;and in Fig. 3 a like view, showing a different manner of clasping.

' My invention relates to an improvement in the manner of securing twoends of the Wire to form hoops for hoop-skirts 5 and it consists informing a shoulder upon one or both of the two ends, so that the end ofthe one will rest l against the shoulder of the other, and thus placedtogether, are securely clasped.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my improvement,I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings.

A B represent the two ends of a single hoop, each bent so as to form ashoulder, a, and thus formed the two ends are placed together, as seenin Fig. 2, and a clasp of any convenient form placed around the twoends, extending so as to clasp rmly onto the wire back of each or" theshoulders and over the two ends to hold them together, as denotedin red,Fig. 2. The two shoulders prevent the wire from being forced the o neonto the other, and the clasp being secured back of each of theshoulders prevents the two wires'from bein gdrawn apart.

I prefer to use a single clasp, as described,

yet a short clasp may be used at each of the shoulders. 4

By this manner of elasping the wires need lap each other but verylittle, and much less than when clasped in the common manner, whereby asaving both in weight or' the skirt and cost of material is made. Ashoulder formed upon one end only would prevent the two ends from beingforced one onto the other, but would not so securely prevent thewithdrawal of one end after the two were clasped together. Or the twoshoulders may be placed the one over the other, as seen in Fig. 3, andclasped, as denoted in red, which would doubtless be the strongestmanner of uniting 5 but the iirst mode would be the most finished.

Having therefore'fully described my inven- Y JOHN E. EARLE.

Witnesses H. O. PEGK, H. H. PEGK.

